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Best way to structure code for a character dependent on its environment and vice versa
What is the neatest way in a strict OOP language (c++ say) to avoid the following circular dependency. Imagine I create a character class and a world class. A character requests data from the world to ...
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Restructure OOP Architecture for two classes that are currently circular dependent
I'm working on a simple 2D game using C++ and SFML.
In this game, I have a class WorkbenchBlock which inherits from class Block. ...
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Command Pattern or/and Event Handling porgramming paradigm?
I have created a dynamic library that contains all the tools I want my game executable to have. Additionally, I want to create a world editor/tools for my engine to be more user-friendly.
I'm ...
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Is there any reason not to use classes in C++?
I'm a bit conflicted when it comes to the use of classes currently, I use them all the time, but I realized through the KISS and YAGNI principles I can simplify things by not using them, but is there ...
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In an object-oriented game engine, should there be seperate classes for objects with and without parents?
I am developing a game engine in C++ (for an idea of what kind of design I'm going for, think of ROBLOX, if you're familiar with that) and I need help with a problem I have.
So basically, the objects ...
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Modeling a naturally circular relationship between three classes
I have three classes Location, Item, Character.
Every ...
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How to include cross cutting concerns like sound/graphics effects in an ECS?
It does not seem like a good idea to include this functionality in the game logic like that even if the concrete implementation of the sound or graphics effect is abstracted away. Ideally, the game ...
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How to deal with data that needs to be accessed by all objects?
I have a World class that currently only has one instance. It has data and methods that need to be accessed by all other game objects. Right now I'm hardcoding a ...
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OOP architecture problem between Camera, Player, Weapon
I am making an FPS game in Unity, trying to keep myself to OOP principles as much as I can but I found dead-end.
I want to add recoil to my game, now logically thinking the amount of recoil should be ...
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How can an Entity trigger changes to the world in C++?
I'm writing a simple physics based game in C++ using SFML. I want to trigger a scene change when my playerCharacter collides with a door. Since C++ does not have any native Event Sender/Listener ...
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Best way to implement a class or interface for a set of UI buttons that only differ in their Draw() function?
I have three types of UI buttons that go on a cooldown bar:
A traditional cooldown bar button where once the corresponding key is pressed, a timer shows over the button and dims the texture.
A button ...
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How do I design my classes so that my Player.cs code can use class-specific abilities from another script? [duplicate]
Right now, I have a Player.cs class that handles button pushes, movement speed, damage, Update() etc. At the moment, all of the logic for button presses triggering an ability, and the logic ...
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Should I avoid using object inheritance as possible to develop a game?
I prefer OOP features when developing games with Unity. I usually create a base class (mostly abstracted) and use object inheritance to share the same functionality to the various other objects.
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Should I separate the Pathfinding info from the Tile Info class? [closed]
I have implemented A* on a Tile Based Game, my Tile class contains a lot of info like Position, TileType, Items, Characters, etc on it. Right now that class has the Edges references(neighbours), ...
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When should I acquire game objects with dependency injection, find-with-tag, or singletons?
This is sort of a best practice/efficiency kind of question, and I haven't really seen any other question talking about these three things together.
Essentially, Dependency Injection, Find with Tag (...
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